The brutal bashings of a five-year-old Cody Hutchings by his step-father promoted a major change in state legislation in Australia.<br /> <br />After Stuart John McMaster was found guilty manslaughter, the Victorian State Government introduced the new offence of child homicide.<br /> <br />Welcome to Crime Shots – short, sharp, true crime stories from Australia's past and present.
Young Fidelia Knight arrives in Melbourne in 1874, alone except for her treasured companion, Samuel Johnson; well, half of him.<br /> To escape servitude, Fidelia hides each night in Bourke-street's renowned Coles Book Arcade. She loves words, you see, and wants to know them all.<br /> What she overhears in Coles sets her on a path that will change the lives of everyone she meets, starting with Jasper Godwin, the hopelessly underqualified manager of the new Billings Better...
She's sassy and opinionated – but maybe not the sharpest feeli on four legs.<br /> <br />When Megsy is checked in to the Lap of Luxury Cat Resort, she soon learns there's a lot she doesn't know, like: talent, pedigrees, surfing the Intercat, and where her kisskies went.<br /> <br />But, with the help of her fellow feeli inmates – Raffles, Big Dan, Zsa Zsa, Hamish the Handsome, and The Colonel – she gets a new perspective on life; and new name from cattery...
